Miscegenation, Identity and Status in Colonial Africa

Intimate Colonial Encounters

Bibliographic Data

ID9390752
AuthorsLawrence Mbogoni (corresponding author)
Year2018
Pages226
Publication date2018-12-07
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueMiscegenation, Identity and Status in Colonial Africa (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315162331
OpenAlexW4245685436
ISBN9781315162331
Open LibraryOL52548208M
LanguageEN
Citations received3

Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the colonial administrations in British East-Central African colonies considered inter-racial sexual liaisons to be a serious and recurrent "problem". Consequently, inter-racial sexual liaisons (concubinage and marriage) and the mixed race progeny that resulted from these liaisons led to protracted discussions and enactment of policies which addressed questions about concubinage, marriage, racial identity, sexual morality, and the status of persons of mixed race in British East-Central Africa. Using archival sources and secondary literature, the author highlights how colonial inter-racial intimate encounters became intertwined with conceptions of 'race' and what it meant to be European, African ("native") and racially mixed. Intended for students and scholars interested in the study of 'race' and sexuality in colonial Africa, the book will provide an understanding of why inter-racial liaisons despite of rigid racial barriers were not easy to legislate against

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Identity (music · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Africa · antiblackness · British colonialism · British colonies · Central · Colonies · Great britain · Malawi · Métissage · Miscegenation · Race identity · race relations · Racially mixed people · Relations raciales · Swaziland · Tanzania · Uganda · Zambia · Zimbabwe

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